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The publication of the Online Safety Bill, after years of debate and scrutiny and consultation, is imminent. By way of teasers, we’ve had two announcements from DCMS now ahead of the publication of the new Draft Bill itself – the...
‘If it’s illegal offline, it should be illegal online.’ This is the rallying cry around which the debate on digital regulation in the UK has coalesced. It and its converse (‘if it’s legal offline, it should be legal online’) are...
“Rest assured, this Bill will end anonymous abuse, because it will end abuse, full stop.” We will ‘turn the tide on racist, misogynistic and anti-semitic abuse.’ The promises of a succession of Secretaries of State about the Online Safety Bill set...
Over the last few years, solutions to the problem of online abuse have been proposed and attempted – from pleading with platforms to do the bare minimum of enforcing their own terms and conditions, to entirely new regulatory frameworks being...
‘The safest place in the world to go online’. This is the ambition for the UK, set out by the Government in the 2019 Online Harms White Paper, and echoed over the next two years as the proposals evolved into...
After two years, the UK Government has finally put forward a draft bill on Online Safety – to empower a regulator, Ofcom, to compel tech companies and social media platforms to fulfil a ‘duty of care’ to their users and...
Many months of being at home, and the popularity of birdwatching has “soared”. Soon, however, we can also engage in this beloved activity online and tune into the not-always-so-sweet melodies to be found on Twitter. Initiatives like the Big Garden...
Last week, the world looked on in horror as a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, leading the people inside to have to barricade themselves in their offices for safety as the chambers were overrun by far-right extremists. In...
By Dr Robert Simpson, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, UCL This guest blog is a response to the findings of Demos’ open survey on people’s online lives, as part of the Renew Normal project: The survey data coming out of...
